Sentence examples for cartographic from inspiring English sources

The history of the Mercator projection and the north-is-up convention show how small cartographic decisions can make huge differences in how we see the world.

In the 19th century the navigators finally succeeded.Chinese leaders are now flexing their own cartographic muscles.

China's "nine-dashed line", its vague cartographic claim to most of the sea, encroaches on the claims of four ASEAN members.

Set up by two former Google employees, it used remote sensing and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.

But in late March it also antagonised Brunei and Malaysia, by sending a naval flotilla where those two nations have claims, at the southern tip of China's expansive "nine-dashed line", a vague cartographic claim dating from the 1930s.Individually, China's actions can be seen as pragmatic reactions to different pressures.

"One is to find your way…how do you remove all the information except [what] you really need to answer your question?" The other is the "opposite of the cartographic aim: to create a sense of reality, a completely comprehensive representation of the world".To do the first, you have to do the second.

Or perhaps it is just encompassed by the "nine-dash line", a lolling tongue of passive cartographic aggression that China says gives it historical rights over almost the entire South China Sea.

The firm is best known for using cartographic maps to visualise "shared information spaces" such as catalogues, inventories and guides because people are familiar with maps, which can pack a lot of information in a limited space such as a computer screen.Antarctica's Visual Net lets customers turn their data into a geographical map.

The "Greenland problem" has long been recognised, even outside professional cartographic circles.One of the Mercator projection's fiercest critics was Arno Peters, a German historian.

Among this rich array of theories, one less clever but far more verifiable explanation is often overlooked: the economies of East Asia are, in fact, right next to each other.This cartographic truism seems to be good news for the region these days.

But, in terms of distance from the nearest road, Cartographic Technologies, a Vermont firm that had to come up with the answer for a Land Rover advertisement, gives the prize to Bridger Lake, in Wyoming, in the northern Rocky Mountains.The lake is small, clear and surrounded by shores dotted with bluebells and trees (many, alas, blackened by the 1988 Yellowstone fire).